Spotlight: Snitch City
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S1E6 UPDATE: Case Dismissed
Reporters Dugan Arnett and Andrew Ryan are back in court to learn the fate of a case that has spanned eight years. In 2017, New Bedford police accused Steven Ortiz of being at the center of a major…
S1E5 EPISODE 5: “All this for nothing”
Two former New Bedford informants tell shocking stories. The first: a woman who didn’t even know she was being used as an informant by the cop she was sleeping with. The second: a man who was Paul…
S1E4 EPISODE 4: Cops & Robbers
When Frank "Rizzo" Simmons was a big-time drug dealer in New Bedford in the '90s, he went toe-to-toe with a drug cop named Paul Oliveira. After a major bust of Frank’s headquarters, Oliveira tries to…
S1E3 EPISODE 3: The Chief
Meet New Bedford’s police chief, Paul Oliveira. He’s had a hand in both of the stories we’ve already heard. And the Spotlight Team's reporting shows there's a dark backstory behind Oliveira's rise to…
S1E2 EPISODE 2: Blind Trust
Spotlight reporter Dugan Arnett receives a desperate phone call from an informant who’s now in prison. He says he's afraid for his life because other inmates know he cooperated with police. This…
S1E1 EPISODE 1: Officer Pastillas
On the docks of New Bedford, Massachusetts, whispers about a rogue police officer harassing fishermen and stealing drugs come to a head aboard a scalloping boat late one night. The officer forces his…
S1 Trailer
In a nation addicted to drugs, police across the country have become addicted to informants. Nowhere is this more apparent than in one New England port city, where police have been empowered to use…
Trailer Two
In just a few weeks, the Boston Globe’s new podcast will drop. Informants are the nameless, faceless cogs of the criminal justice system. And their use is cloaked in near total secrecy. Reporter…
Coming Soon… Snitch City
Confidential informants are the backbone of America’s war on drugs. But the way police use them has remained almost entirely hidden. Until now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
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Spotlight: Snitch City has published 9 episodes since January 2025, covering topics in Documentary, News.
Spotlight: Snitch City is currently dormant with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 38m.
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